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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-09-22

That is case number three, and
there are several more of them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-03
The Culinary Artists Despair.

The French delegation sent over to the inau-
guration of the Bartholdi Statue of Lib erty
was entertained at dinner by the Union League
club. And what support A supper such as
only the wedding feasts of Gamache could give
an idea The dishes served were of the most ex-
quisite and costly description; the confectiOn-
cry was of the most learned and artistic sort;
dish after dish came on selected from a bill
of fare which covered no less than an enor-
nous page of closely printed text. Nothing, in
fact was wanting except the appetite to do
honor to banquet worthy Of Sardanapalus.
At midnight the first course was still in
progress. The chairman thereupon took
decisive step. He summarily put stop to
endless pageant, and ordered champagne to
be served.
have since learned that this firm resolve
on the part of the chairman proved almost
death blow to the cook of the club, an italian,
whose amour propre was at stake. He had
dreamed of out rivaling his most formidable
competitors of New York by setting before
real connoiseurs repast which, from first to
last, should prove gastronomic crescendo OF
the highest order. In his despair, the cook
was with difficulty prevented from thrusting,
not sword like Vatel, for he had none-but
a kitchen knife through his body. Kind
words, however, brought him round to .
calmer mood. Take consolation, o grand
culinary artist for the French delegation,
despite its poor appetite, has retained last
ing sense OF your merits.-M. Charles Bigot
in Paris Revue-Bleue.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-03
Treasured Sayings.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find
it fame.-Pope.
Self-love exsggerates both our faults
and our virtues.-Goethe.
A kiss from my mother made me a
painter.-Benjomin West.
Good manners and good morals are
sworn friends and allies.-BartOl.
Thought is invisible nature-nature is
invisible thought.-Heihrich Heine.
The noontide sun is dark, and music
discord, when the heart is low.-Young.
Peasure is the flower that fades; re-
membrsnce is the lasting Perfume
Bouffiers.
Unless habit leads to happiness, the
best habit is to contract none.-Zim"
norman.
The superior man wishes to be slow
in bis words and earnest in his conduct.
-Confucius.
Truth will not only take care of it,
self, but it will take care of the man
who breaches it.-Sam Jones.
A coIplet of verse, u period Of prose,
may cling to the rock of ages as shell
that survives deluge.-Bulwer LyttOn.
If can put one touch of rosy sunset
into the life of any man or woman,
shall feel that have worked with God.
George Macdonald.
The most serviceable. certain, safe, re-
munerative, attsinable quality, in every
study, in every pursuit. is the quality of
observation-disclosures.
Our condition never satisfies US; the
present is always the worst. Though
Jupiter should grant his request to each,
we should continue to importune him.
FOntaine.
We pass for what we are. and we
prosper or fail by what we are. There
are men who may dare much and will
be justified in their daring. Bnt it is
because they know they are in their
place. AS long as l am In my place
am safe.-Emerson.
With malice toward none, with chari-
ty for all, vita tirmnesS In the right rs
God gives Us to see the right, let US
strive on to finish the work We are in
TO bind up the nations wound; to care
Tor him who shall have borne the battle.
and for bis widow and bis orphans; to
do all which may achieve and cherish a
just and lasting peace among ourselves
and with all natiOhs.-Lincoln.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-03

N THE Investigation into the Texas cleo
tion outrages continues, and additional
evidence of bulldoziDg Is being produc-
ed. One of the witnesses yesterday
testified that much of the trouble was
caused by the present Federal officials.
Judge Kirk, he said, instigated the de-
struction of the ballot boxes and the
killing of the colored men. This Is a
point which should receive the fullest
investigation, and nothing should be
left undone to obtain the facts In the
case. 1t places the outrsges above the
plane of ordinary riots when judge is
declared to be the instigator. and the
United States owes it to the whole ma
tion to ascertain whether or not the
accusation is we'll founded, and it is, to
visit with condign punishment the man
who has so disgraced his ermine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-03

THE March number of Godey's Lady's
Book contains the opening chapters of q
new story by Harriet Prescott Spoford.
"The Mauleverer Money" promises to
be fully equal to the best efforts of this
popular writer. Jenny June contrib
utes another of her bright society letters
giving glimpses of the doings Of New
York society. The black and colored
fashions are good as they always are.
The two strong serials begun in the
November number. 1886, are completed.
The steel plate illustration entitled
"The Promise" is superb engraving.
w E Striker. 1924 Arch street, Phils+
delpbia.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-03
Take Snfacient Drink.

Medical authorities now declare that 1t Is Of
vital Importance to health that the system
should receive daily a sufficient quantity OF
water to amount to what sailors would call .
'fiushing;" that is, sufficient to wash away
the waste Most of the matter which should
be excreted is solid, and requires compara-
lively large volume of fluid to dissolve it 50
that it may be cast off, an example Of which
may be seen in the case of uric acid, which
needs several thousand times its weight in
water to dissolve, or else it crystallizes IN the
shape Of calculi, or produces other disease
Three and half pints Of water or other clear
fluid, not obstructed by semi-solid contents,
should be taken daily by every adult, and by
large people as much as four and half or
five pints, in order to keep the cells Of ths
kidneys well washed out, the effete waste
matter from the possibility Of fdepositing itself
where it may do harm, and the system in
health generally.-Harper's Bazar. (
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-03
DRESSER TO ADELAIDE NELSON.

Hannah Leone's Occult Influence Over
the Great Actress-MOdjesks'sH Notion.
Hannah Leone's history has never been
told, and as it gives an interesting page In
theatrical history it is worth relating.
Hannah many years ago married worth
less fellow named Leone, and after enduring
with him for a few years she finally left him
and accepted the position Of a dresser to
Adelaide Nelson. Hannah is a short, hump
backed woman, but she has pleasing features
and some call her pretty. From the time
she first accepted the position with Nelson,
up to the time of that talented actress sad
death, Hannah performed her duties without
ever making a mistake. Her duties as a
dresser consisted in packing and unpacking
her mistress wardrobe and in dressing Neil
son for the stage. As Hannah was obliged
TO know where every article was and at 4
minutes notice be able to place her hand
upon it, it may readily be seen that her duties
were not only onerous, but that they also re-
quired great deal of headwork to success
fully perform.
Hannah exercised some strange occult in
fuence over Nelson and it is said that that
most beautiful but most wayward woman
feared and loved no one but her. and that one
look from Hannah's clear eyes had more in
fuence over her than the prayers and en-
treaties of hundred friends. Certain it Is
that Nelson loved the quiet little woman, for
after har fNailsr-,i-s -',. Ee<-1 ~ "dAo
found that she had bequeathed to Hannah
Leone the most beautiful and valuable set Of
jewels Of her priceless collection.
After Nelson's sad death in Paris Hannah
returned to this country, and for some time
remained in privacy; but in 1882 or 1888 she
Nj Ii, II
the latter until last fall
Modjeska, like other great actresses, has
her pet superstitions First among them Is
that if she goes on the stage at the first pro-
luctioD of new piece without rubbing her
hand over humpbacked persons back the
play will be dismal failure. Hannah, on
account of her hump, was invaluable to Mod
jesla, but owing to some disagreement she
was finally discharged.
At the production of SDaniela" in New
York short time since, after everything
was ready, Modjeska refused to allow the
piece to go on unless she could rub her hand
over a humpbacked persons back. The stage
manager was in agony until he happened to
espy humpbacked man in the audience.
The manager quietly had him called upon the
stage, and after Modjeska had daintily
caressed his hump with the tips of her fingers
she consented to make her entrance upon the
stage, and the play moved smoothly on.
Hannah Leone is a finely educated woman,
speaking three or four different languages,
and it is owing alone to the great love she
bore Nelson that she has never risen to q
higher place in the world. She is living at
present in New York, quietly, on one of the
up town streets She has had many offers
from great actresses to enter their service,
but has not considered any Of them favorably.
New York Star.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-03

IT is curious fact that the late Matt
Carpenter, who represented Wisconsin
brilliantly In the Senate. at one time de-
cided to enter the ministry, and began
the study of theology. He had lost his
sight for time, and there are many old
people now living in the little Western
town where he spent his first ten years
at the bar who can well remember the
earnest prayers and eloquent talks of
the young lawyer. Carpenter was then
tall, spare, blaokeyed fellow. handsome
as Lucifer. and as dangerous. Rufus
Choate sent him to New York to gut
bis eyes under treatment, and he stuck
to the law. His determination to go
into the ministry was heeting surren>
der to dependency. but his old feiends
always cherished their dreams of his
future as the great blind preacher of the
West. 1t was at that period of his life
that Carpenter acquired his fondness
for Scripture reading, trait which ex-
plains the simplicity and ctearness of
his speeches in the Senate and at the
bar.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-03

SOMEONE has taken the pains to give
the equivalent expressions in ten differ
ent languages for the American and
English How do you do?" In French
it Ia How do you carry yourselff' In
Italian. How do you standp' In Cert
man. How do you find yourselfP' In
Dutch, How do you fareP' In Swedish
How can youT In Egyptian, How do
you perspireT In Chinese, How is
your stomach? Have you eaten your
rice?' In Polish, How do you have
yourself2' In Russian, How do you
live onf' In Persian, May thy shadow
never grow less
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-03
Death of B. f. Taylor, Author, Poet
and Lecturer.

CLEVELAND, Feb. 24-Benj. F. Taylor,
LID. poet. author, and lecturer, died
at his home, No. 13O Huron street, in
this city at o'clock this morning. after
an illness of only week. Last Thurs
day he was attacked with sudden chill.
Hiss illness become very much worse,
and soon developed into peritonitis.
Benjamin Tayloa was defendant
of long line of sturdy New England
ers. He was born in LOwville, n Y. in
1922, and graduated at Madison univer-
slty of which institution his father Was
president, in 1888, when only 16 years
of age. At the outbrake of the civil
war he went to the battlefield al cOrre-
spondent for a Chicago newspaper
About three hours before he was taken
with the fatal chill week ago. DR. Tay-
lor read the last proof-sheet of his lat
est work, a novel, entitled "Theophilns
Trent"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-03
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN OHURCH-Rsv. R.
Il Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath morning and evening; Sabbath school
at $50 a. m; young peoples of Christian
eudesvor, Monday evenings; general prayer
meeting, Wednesday evening. Strangers
welcome 10 all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
NlRev. w. II. Haskell, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II s.m-; 7p.m. Sabbath School:
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday .
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday 2 pm.
Strangers are cordially invited to all our
services.
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
u Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School. 10 am Public worship: II am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday 8 pm.
Monthly prayer meeting Last Saturday Of
each month, pm. Woman's Missionary
Society: Last Saturday each month, pm.
District prayer meetings: First Tuesdays,
Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays each
month, pm Young women's prayer meet
ing: second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, / pm
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-03

OUR friend, The Brooklyn Eagle has
fragile memory. 1t says that at the
End of Mr.. Cleveland's term "an ADJ
ministration of many successes, few
mistakes and no scandals will be folded
up for history" No scandals! What
does it call Garland? Few mistakes
what does it think of Baysrd's diploma
cy, the fisheries muddle, the Cutting
blunder. the Kelly incident, the pulque
disasters; of Whitney's oppressive and
ruinous conduct; of Villas foreign postal
mismsnagement; of Larmar's wretched
land and Indian policy; what does il
think of Hedden. of Veszy, of the Ben
ton-Stone affair. of the 0berly -Edaerton
appointments and of the. grotesque tar
If squsbbiesf, Many -successes-well
yes, one. He contracted charming
marriage.-N. Y. Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-03
Minister PendletOn on War in Europ,


Minister PendletOn on War in Europe.
Cincinnati Special.
How do you horoscope the gathering
war cloude in Europe?"
Mr.. Pendleton 81 don't think there's
going to be a war. Wars in Europe are
not brought about by any overlapping
sentiment or feeling among the people.
They're regulated entirely by two or
three men in Russia, three or four in
Germany, four or five in Austria, and
six or seven in France. Now, Germany
doesn't want war. 1 know that, posi-
lively. know that Germauy's every
effort will be executed for peace. Aus
tria doesn't want war. France doesn't
want peace. Why2 Because she knows
that fifteen years more of peace, will en-
tirely, through the changes OF time and
men, obliterate the French spirit to re.
cover Alsace and Lorraine. With fifteen
years more of peace Alsace and Lor>
raine, owing to the passing away of one
generation and the coming forward of
another, will be German provinces.
France doesn't want fifteen more peace
able years to ensue. She doesn't want
the disposition to recover the provinces
wrested from her by Germany. The
great Powers of Eastern Europe are
Germany, Russia and Austria. There is
an evident sentiment among these Pow
ers that the existence of all three Is es-
sential to preserve the equilibrium. They
realize that with one or the other
overcome. subjugated or wiped out. it
would become a desperate question of
the survival Of the fttpst.'
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-03


The Independent says of Abby Kelly,
who died recently, that she suffered not
a little undeserved reproach in the early
days of anti'slavery agitation from
being confounded with Abby Folsom.
Abby Kelly was brought up a quiet
Quaker and was never Ianter. But
Abby Folsom had been brought up in a
ranting school, had no self restraint,
loved To make d a eeiiss and sensation and
did not know when she was made fun
Of The boys in the rear of the crowd
liked the fun of hearing her and would
cry for Abby Folsom, and as it was the
boast of the Abolitionists that they had
free platform they found it impossible
to keep her from their meetings. She
was an intolsrable nuisance aud would
be heard. But she was a woman of a
good deal of wit and sometimes turned
the tables on those who tried to silence
her. On one occasion she became so
troublesome to the managers Of the
meeting that these Abolitionists them
selves could stand their free platform"
no longer and three of them, Wendell
Philips, his brother-in-lsw William A
White, and Oliver Johnson, lifted her
up in the chair in which she had plant
ed herself, and carried her out Of the
meeting. But she raised her voice
above the tumult and cried out: II am
more honored than my Master was. He
was borne on one ass and am borne
by three"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-03
Crimes, Political and Other.

Where there are political crimes.
there is exceedingly apt to be robbery of
the people BY rascally and raVenous pol
iticians. See Chicago, disgraced by
Mackin's raseslity, and its dishonest city
government. See Cincinnati, with its
forgeries of returns to cheat Republi
cans, and its plunder of the taxpayers
By frauds almost countless and quite
shameless. Now see Indians; every
Democrat upholds crimes by which
seats were stolen in the Legislature and
bogus election of United States Sena-
tor was effected, and the natural result
comes in exposure of most Infamous
prison management, and Warden has
robbed the people of S15O,OOO, more or
less. In short time, probably, the vo
ters of New Jersey will learn that they
also have been robbed, how much it is
hard to say, by the scoundrels who have
been upheld by the entire Democratic
party in its effort to snatch the Senator
ship for Albeit. The men who are ca
pable of political crimes are likely to
commit others. If not before. then after,
their robbery of political opponets.
There is nothing strange about these
condolences. The strange thing is that
respectable citizens are ever surprised,
when they are robbed by rascals whom
they clothe with irresponsible power for
tne preparation of political crimes,
When the decent men of a party wink
at the appointment or election of scoun-
drels, because those scoundrels can most
effectively rob their political opponents;
when these decent men uphold the
scoundrels in stuffing ballot boxes. in
making forged returns, in violating
their oatbs by seating men not elect
ed by the people, all for political
ends, can they be so stupid as to suppose
that the criminals to whom they thus
give unrestrained power will not use it
for selfish ends also? New Jersey has
boasted a comparatively inexpensive,
econsmical and honest government In
times past, when the honest men of both
parties joined hands to hunt down GRIM
inals of both parties. Now its whole
Democratic party upholds crime for the
purpose of robbing Republicans. The
result may be that the State will be rob-
bed, as it never has been before.-N. Y.
Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-03
How Donkey Parties are Conducted.

Donkey parties gre the latest thing in the
way of a social gathering in Milkwaukee. A
large slikeatte representing tailleSs donkey
is cut out OF paper OF cloth and fastened upon
the wall To each guest are given cambria
tail and pin. Then they are blindfolded, ons
by one, placed In a corner opposite the donkey,
whirled three times around, and then started
on a blind search for the donkey, upon which,
if they reach it, the tail is to be pinned. II the
guest goes in another direction and stumbles
against wall, door, chair, or anything else,
there he must leave the tail The movements
of the blindfolded are apt to be hdicrouS
The person who makes the best effort to place
the tail upon the donkey where it belongs re-
ceives present of some kind, while the guest
who makes the most unsuccessful effort gets
the BOBBY prize.-New York Sun
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-03
THE SHAKOW ON OUR LIVES.

In the dense and leafy woodland,
From each lofty tree-top down,
Flecked with dashss of the sunlight.
Falls the shadow cool and brown.
But how different is the shadow
Which our soul of light deprives;
Different far the many shadows
Never lifted from our lives.
When our life is young and buoyant,
When our hopes are high and strong.
Then bewarethe thoughtless errors
That are something less than wrong;
For, though each may be trifie.
AS shadow it survives;
And we never through eDdeavor
Lift the shadow from our lives.
Words, in careless moments uttered,
And by US forgotten soon,
Grow with those whose hearts are
wounded
As the freshets swell in June;
More than burthenS they may crush US,
They may gall US more than gives;
Strive we e'er so much we never
Lift the shadows on Oh lives.
Some neglect of bonded duty,
Bus tritle at time,
Merely discord in the music,
Merely error in the rhyme
Worse than whips some day may lash us,
Or may wound US worse than knives,
And our deep remorse shall never
Lift the shadow from our lives.
Come there ever so much sunlight
On our latter maohood's days;
Though the glory of our fortunes
IN It's utmost -brilIiaDee blaZe;F e;F
Though the world around as wonder
As each lofty purpose Ghrives,
Sadness fills US Lhat we never
Lift the shadow from our lives.
When, our life's day nearly ended,
Comes the setting of its sun,
Though the crimson, gold and purple
Of d sunset sky be won;
Though we close the day in honor,
Heroes even to our wives.
Yet, this glow expiring never
Lifts the shadow from our lives.
When our sunset fades to twilight,
And the final hour is here;
When the world around is passing,
And the world to come is near;
Then our memories throng around Us
AS the flesh with spirit strives,
And we never. never, never
Lift their shadow from our lives.
-Thos. Dunn English, 10 Ind.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-03

IDA GEToHEL is Cincinnati belle
who would rather not marry than mar
~ man who is not worthy of the name
and of woman's love. For some time
she has been engaged to certain young
gentleman. also a resident of the Queen
City. The date for the wedding was
set, and invitations issued to large
number of friends. Since that she has
discovered that her future husband led
dissolute life during their courtshiO.
She has therefore snmmarily cast him
adrift, and recalled all the invitations.
The man who succeeds in getting this
young lady for bis wife will have a
treasure.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-03
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS.
Isse-7-BeImont County, Ohio.

I'd Saturday of Oct at st Clairsville.
ID Saturday OF Nov at Belmont.
I'd Saturday OF Dec at st Clsirsville.
I'd Saturday of Jan at Bridgeport
I'd Saturday Of Feb at St Clairsvtlle-
ID Saturday OF Mar az Barnesville
I'd Saturday Of April at 9. Olairsville.
I'd Saturday Of May st Bellaire.
ID Saturday OF June at Morristown.
At Flushing at close OF Institute In Aug.
RULES.
Examinations begin at 8 O'Clock q. m.
Testimonials Of character are required II
applicant is not known TO the Board.
Certificates will not be antedated nor ex-
tended.
Tests in the higher branches will be given
st close OF Institute ONLY.
Certificates will be dated and issued by the
owing each examination.
Envelopes furnished by the Board. Applis
oants pay return postage.
SCALE OF GRADES FOR CERTIFICATES.
A nrst-class Is years. certificate is granted
upon an average of9O per cent, including three
higher branches and the scnool law, with no
grade below rs, provided applicant has bad 30
months experience n teaching.
ed upon an average OF 80 per cent, including
two higher branches and the school law. with
no grade below 70, provided applicant has had
months experience In teaching.
upon an average Of IS per cent. including
one higher branches and the school law, with
no grade below IS. provided applicant has hsd
Is months experience In teaching.
A fourth-class e years. certificate Is granted
upon an average of rs per cent, including the
school law, with no grade below go. provided
A nft6-class q year, certificate Is granted
upon an average of65 per cent, with no grade
3. ALEXANDER. Pres.l
b. L. PECK, Board Of EL
s-2Iy l. q WATERS. Clerk.